Fast wave heating of two-ion plasmas in the Princeton large torus through minority cyclotron resonance damping

Technical Report · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6145397· OSTI ID:6145397

Hosea, J; Bernabei, S; Colestock, P

Strong minority proton heating is produced in PLT through ion cyclotron resonance damping of fast waves at moderate rf power levels. In addition to demonstrating good proton confinement, the proton energy distribution is consistent with Fokker--Planck theory which provides the prescription for extrapolation of this heating regime to higher rf power levels.

• Research Organization: Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-02-3073
• OSTI ID: 6145397
• Report Number(s): PPPL-1554; TRN: 79-016705
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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